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Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme (1839-1907) was the son of a French shopkeeper. He wanted to become an engineer, but an eye disease terminated his training at a polytechnic institute. He studied literature, and after a brief and unsuccessful interlude in industry, he took up law, though without much conviction, and worked in a solicitor’s office.…

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Spanish Mario Vargas Llosa, nacido en 1936 en Arequipa, la segunda ciudad más grande del Peru, pasó su niñez en Cochabamba, Bolivia, y en Piura, una ciudad al norte del país, creyendo que su padre había muerto. En realidad, se trataba de una mentira urdida por su madre para encubrir una tormentosa separación, que estalló…

English Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru’s second largest city. During his childhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Piura, a city in the north of Peru, he believed that his father had died. However, this was a lie told by his mother to conceal their tortuous separation. The truth emerged when, in…

English Motion If you are the amber mare I am the road of blood If you are the first snow I am he who lights the hearth of dawn If you are the tower of night I am the spike burning in your mind If you are the morning tide I am the first bird’s…